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    CHRISTCHURCH, STILL STANDING

    Jan 25, 2021 4 minutes
    Photos by Anthony McKee

    In February 2011, when the ground split and the buildings fell in Christchurch, cameras, both local and international, froze the city in its most vulnerable state. As months passed and Christchurch began moving again, so too did the lenses, following the next news story, and those impacted by the fifth-worst disaster in New Zealand history continued in their own recovery.

    A year later, photographer Anthony McKee returned to capture the defiant characters of an injured city. Residents stood staunchly in front of their homes, red-zoned and set for demolition. Construction workers paused their tasks of dismantling unsafe buildings and putting improved ones in

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